The heaviest known antimatter
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
When an international team of scientists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) announced the discovery of the most massive antinucleus to date and the first containing an anti-strange quark it marked the first entry below the plane of the classic Periodic Table of Elements, and sparked enormous interest worldwide. Dr. Zhangbu Xu, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the 2.4-mile circular atom smasher is located, will share this discovery with a wider audience at this years meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Friday, February 18, 2011.